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How to read nonfiction like a professor, a smart, irreverent guide to biography, history, journalism, blogs, and everything in between, Thomas C. Foster

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How to read nonfiction like a professor, a smart, irreverent guide to biography, history, journalism, blogs, and everything in between, Thomas C. Foster

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How to read nonfiction like a professor

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1143487796

Responsibility statement

Thomas C. Foster

Sub title

a smart, irreverent guide to biography, history, journalism, blogs, and everything in between

Summary

The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media

Table Of Contents

What's going on around here? -- Introduction: why critical reading matters -- The structure of nonfiction information -- The ecology of the nonfiction biosphere -- The power of the prologue -- The parts you don't read -- It may just be me, but... -- Source code -- All in how you look at things -- Bringing the news -- Living the news -- From the inside out -- Life from the inside -- That is so last year -- On the stump -- The universe of ideas/ideas of the universe -- Reading internet sources -- Social (media) disease -- The criminal element -- Conclusion: looking for certainty in an uncertain time

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